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Friday, January 31, 2014

A's abstract II

What a week it's been! Extreme cold, kids home from school and tax deadlines made for a crappy week. But....it's Friday and my tax stuff is DONE. Yippee!!! That totally counts as a finish.

I managed to finish a quilt top, too! My daughter (7) designed this quilt last July and it's been hanging out on the lower quadrant of my design wall ever since. Well, I decided I needed my design wall back, so I sewed it up. There's nothing like a deadline to motivate me to finish some unrelated and unimportant task. (I have a degree in procrastination. ha!)

Sewing it up was not as easy as it looks. I used some non-conventional piecing techniques and there were a few partial seams that had me puzzled. It was a fun challenge, though! I lost a little bit of the wonkiness on some of the pieces, but I did the best that I could without stressing too much.

I REALLY like it! Kids have such an intuitive sense of design. There is a great disregard to matching everything perfectly. It made me cringe a bit to put the dark teal next to the hot pink, but in the grand scheme of things, it works wonderfully. I love that there is just one little pop of orange, too. It's so interesting and I can't stop studying it. I'm glad that I am able to sew up and preserve a little bit of her artwork in this way. She is ecstatic and she's already talking about snuggling up in it. (That makes me so happy!)

It measures 66" x 62".

This is a follow up to her first abstract quilt, which she designed when she was 4. She's already talking about a 3rd quilt. That's my girl. :)

That strip of orange is awesome. (Procrastination seems to be a common "degree" in the quilter world... I have one as well.) I love that you let your daughter decide how it would look. I need to try this with mine. She would LOVE it. :)

Your daughter did a great design job! And kudos to you for letting her design it as she saw fit. I struggle with making too many suggestions to my daughter on color and design when we sew together. I can learn from you!

LOVE your daughter's quilt. I would like to be more attuned to my Sarah's (6yo) wanting to sew, etc. It seems so hard when we have our own deadlines looming (those taxes!) but it's worth it in the long run!

I love your daughter's quilt. Isn't exciting to be nurturing a future quilter!Thanks for your blog story today, as I can relate. I must have been in one of your classes while working on your degree in procrastination. I am behind you still working on my degree. Hehehe

Love your daughter's quilt! My almost 5-year-old son has been bitten by the quilting bug as well. Sometimes he picks fabrics and we decide together how wide of strips and where they'll go (sort of an improv log cabin block), and sometimes he designs a block with crayons and paper and then we recreate it in fabric.

I love how uninhibited kids are and how wonderful that makes their creativity! I saw something on facebook about procraftination, pretty much ignoring everything to sew - there's another layer to that though when you start sewing something else other than what you need to be working on! That's why we all have WIPs!

Looks like you have a budding quilt designer in your midst! A little friendly competition? I love her fabric choices. In addition to the abstract design, the solids give it an ultra modern feel. Well done!

Funny how good they are isn't it? My kid will pick out fabrics and I'll find myself rattling off some color "rule" or some reason she should pick something else. She usually rolls her eyes and says I dont care thats what I want. When she's all done, it turns out she was always right and my stupid rule should be damned! :)

PLEASE don't think this is rude, but that has got to be in the top ten of my favorite things you've made. Honestly, I like it better than most of the quilts in my Pinterest. Which reminds me, excuse me while I go Pin this sucker. Love it!!

I love that quilttop your doughter designed!And I love that you made the top for her!I was so in to my own designs when my doughter was younger and designed hers, but I have started to sew hers now and it´s a great feeling to do that!

That is a great collaboration, and I think you did a great job of keeping her vision together. My son is 4 and would probably love it if I gave him a bag of scraps and a corner of my design wall to use--what a great idea, thanks!

I am obsessed with this quilt!! Any chance you'd be willing to do a simple how-to for this? I really want to try it, maybe wall quilt size, for my daughters, but words like "unconventional piecing" and "partial seams" terrify me. I'd love even some tips for getting started!

Truly A has an intuitive sense of design. You are so good to make up the quilt top as she laid it out. Multigenerational talent, I tell you! I too have that procrastination degree. I am actually working toward finishes in my own way and boy, does it feel good?! I'm embarrassed to say my 36 patch is on that list but it WILL get finished this year. Maybe even this quarter.

What a little artist!! I Love it - You and I share the same degree... *sigh* My oldest was telling us all about what he learned from us as parents... from me - he said he learned how to procrastinate.... oh boy ..

That is a gorgeous quilt! You're right about kids being intuitive about design... It's like beauty just naturally flows through them and they don't waste energy with second guessing themselves or doubt.Wonderful.

What a great idea! I'm not ready to let my daughter loose on my machine yet (she's five) but a design wall, my scraps and me piecing sounds like a great way for us to start quilting together - thanks Amanda x